Sentences with phrase «biology studies how»

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But we also study mosquito biology because understanding how mosquitoes eat, mate and defend themselves against infection can help us develop strategies to control or eradicate them.

If you have difficulty seeing just how loaded this knowledge - belief distinction is, try to imagine the reaction of Darwinists to the suggestion that their theory should be removed from the college biology curriculum and studied instead in a course devoted to nineteenth - century intellectual history.

Mendel is perhaps the more familiar figure; most high school biology classes explain how the Moravian monk developed gene theory and the theory of inherited characteristics (with its distinction between recessive and dominant traits) from his studies of the humble pea.

Brownell studies biology education, in particular how undergraduate biology students learn and how instructors can develop more effective ways to teach.

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study plants like this Arabidopsis thaliana to learn how molecules, cells and tissues integrate mechanics within plant and animal biology, with the aim of creating new materials, biomedical therapies and agricultural technologies.

I remember, back as a student starting out with two majors, biology and English language and literature, at the University of Szeged in Hungary in 1993, how keen I became to study anthropology for my master's in biology in a foreign country.

Polly and his co-author A. Michelle Lawing, a doctoral candidate studying biology and geological sciences at Indiana, looked at 11 species of rattlesnakes across North America, tracking where they lived and how much they vary from one another, reconciling their movements with the climate several million years in the past.

Dr Loch says the study showed how using techniques and methods commonly employed in dentistry can answer questions with broader implications in the biology and evolution of animal species.

Her interest was in the sciences — first biology, then biochemistry and finally pharmacology, the study of how chemicals act on the human body.

The intellectual difficulty is in the biology, and how to use the mathematics to study it,» says Reed.

Dr Rhonda Snook, a co-author of the study and Reader in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, added: «Understanding how new species form remains one of the most enduring problems in evolutionary biology.

«We think this study now provides a comprehensive model of how thrombopoietin controls platelet production, and perhaps gives some insight into the biology and mechanism behind specific myeloproliferative disorders,» Dr Ng said.

The scientists combined phylogenetics — the study of evolutionary relationships between different species, with genomics — the study of how the genome of an organism conditions its biology.

In the first study of its kind, Rice University scientists have used synthetic biology to study how a popular soil amendment called «biochar» can interfere with the chemical signals that some microbes use to communicate.

In time, she channeled her early passion for how things work into academic study, majoring in biology at the University of Rochester and earning a Ph.D. in anatomy and neuroscience at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

«This paper is a great example of how chemistry can help make step changes in biology,» says Matthew Dalby, a professor of cell engineering at the University of Glasgow and co-senior author on the study with Ulijn.

«A phylogeny and taxonomy is fundamental for all fields of biology that use lizards and snakes, to understand how to classify the species being studied, to interpret biological patterns in terms of relatedness, and even at a more basic level, to count how many species are in an area, for example, for conservation management purposes.»

Studying the vying for nutrients in the cell «will teach us really interesting biology about how the cell senses the presence of a parasite metabolically, and how the cell is able to metabolically respond,» Pernas says — knowledge that could lead to new therapies.

«If we understand how these selfish elements are exploiting the mechanics of meiosis, then we'll understand more deeply how that process works in the first place,» said Michael Lampson, associate professor of biology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and senior author on the study.

«Moving forward, structural biology and physicochemical studies will help us to understand how exactly the drug binds to its protein targets and how these modifications of proteins affect their structures and hence their functions,» said Dr Wang.

The research draws from previous findings by molecular biology and genetics professor and study co-author Mariana Wolfner on how Drosophila females» gene expression, behavior and physiology are changed by mating.

«By learning more about how these cells work, we are one step closer to understanding the disease states in which these cells should be studied,» said Cagla Eroglu, an assistant professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, who led the research.

«Until now, no studies have separated how resistance to these two different drug actions might work,» says Roepe, also a professor of biochemistry and cell and molecular biology and co-founder of Georgetown's Center for Infectious Disease at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Dr. Benedetti's research methodology employed in this article transcends the traditional division between psychology, the study of the mind and how it works, and biology, the study of all living things.

She said that in the future, she would like to continue studying the brain structure of girls with CAH and further explore how biology and socialization work together to influence development.

A novel Yale study answers age - old questions about how cancers spread by applying tools from evolutionary biology.

Brian Shmaefsky, professor of biology and environmental science at Lone Star College and a member of the AAAS On - call Scientists initiative, described a case study to illustrate how scientists can participate in advocacy and human rights work.

The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.

«This study opens an entirely new area of discovery for many aspects of cell biology and biomedical research — how cancer cells metastasize, for example — and provides many new therapeutic targets,» said senior author Jack Dixon, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor of Scientific Affairs.

In a 2011 meta - analysis, Beery and Irving Zucker, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, dug into 10 areas of biological research, such as biology and pharmacology, to see just how bad the sex bias was in animal studies.

«This year's Nobel Laureates have been studying this fundamental problem and solved the mystery of how an inner clock in most of our cells in our bodies can anticipate daily fluctuations between night and day to optimize our behavior and physiology... since the paradigm shifting discoveries by Hall, Rosbash and Young, circadian biology has developed into a highly dynamic research field with vast implications for our health and well - being.»

The three studies, published in tomorrow's issue of Nature, push the limits of structural biology and set an important precedent for understanding how molecular pumps work, including those in humans, notes Werner Kühlbrandt of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Eggan has been working with Steve McCarroll, associate professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of genetics at the Stanley Center, to study how genes shape the biology of neurons, which can be derived from these stem cells.

In a recent study, Alexandre Courtiol from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin (Germany) and his collaborators from the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution in Montpellier (France) conclude that how choosy animals are is something that emerges predictably from the biology of each species and sex.

Led by researchers at Duke University, the study offers clues to a longstanding question in developmental biology, namely how plants and animals make so many types of cells from the same set of instructions.

In recent years, the study of human biology has been shaken up by discoveries of how the bacteria that live in the gut, the so - called microbiome, affect metabolism, the immune system, and disease progression.

James Christiansen, professor of biology at Drake University in DesMoines, is studying how telomeres, the simple, non-genetic DNAsequences that sheathe the ends of chromosomes, function in reptiles.Each time a healthy human cell divides, it loses a little bit of thetelomere, until the strands are too short to protect the chromosomes.At that point the DNA in a cell begins to break down, which triggerssenescence and death.

«It's the first look at how chemistry and biology involve just a few key motions for even the most complex systems,» says U of T chemistry and physics professor R. J. Dwayne Miller, principal investigator of the study.

One of the great challenges in biology involves finding ways to study different biological systems in cells simultaneously to understand how they work together to sustain life.

«Continued monitoring of shelf inputs to Arctic surface waters is therefore vital to understand how the changing climate will affect the chemistry, biology, and economic resources of the Arctic Ocean,» the study's authors wrote.

Even simple differences such as how big they are at birth correlate with differences in how they respond to drug treatment,» said senior study author Bree Aldridge, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and adjunct assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering.

«Now that we have the cellular and molecular information, the future promises to be very exciting when this knowledge can be used to understand how this system is formed during gestation and how the different neuron types go about controlling the body's functions,» says study leader Patrik Ernfors, professor of tissue biology

The study is «a superb example of how new tools from molecular biology can reveal cryptic, unsuspected variation in even well - known vertebrates like birds,» says H. Lisle Gibbs of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Of note, the current study is part of a recent surge in NYU Langone findings on pancreatic cancer, including studies on how first - responder cells turn off the immune response, the role of the drug nab - paclitaxel in tumor biology, cancer cells» unique fuel sources, and how immune cell infighting drives the disease.

Peter Bernhardt, Ph.D., a professor of biology at SLU and research associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust in Sydney, New South Wales, has been studying reproductive patterns in wildflowers in six countries for over 40 years and, like most dedicated scientists, thrives on new discoveries such as how bees respond to the color of the flowers they pollinate.

The techniques used in the study also open up ways of testing how quantum properties — such as the ability of photons to be in two places at the same time — affect biology, he adds.

«Holzschuh and Deutschlander study migratory songbirds with a discerning eye toward understanding how energetic condition during passage might carry - over to impact breeding biology.

The study nicely demonstrates how leukemia cells create space for themselves in the bone marrow by inducing cell death, says Michael Kharas, a molecular biology graduate student at the University of California, Irvine.

By studying Anthropology, you open the door to the opportunity to reflect on how and why different people and populations have developed similar and different characteristics in their biology and behaviors.